Author:Edward Dutton Cook

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Edward Dutton Cook (1829–1883)

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Novelist; theatre critic for the Pall Mall Gazette, later for The World; assistant editor of the Cornhill Magazine

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This author wrote articles for the Dictionary of National Biography, and the list on this page is complete to 1901.
Articles written by this author are designated in the DNB by the initials "E. D. C." or "D. C."

Edward Dutton Cook

Works

Fiction

• "The Gentleman in the Plum-Coloured Coat" in Once a Week, Series 1, 1 (1859)
• "The Bee in the Bonnet" in Once a Week, Series 1, 3 (1861)
• "A Model Strike" in Once a Week, Series 1, 4 (1861)
• "The Painter-Alchemist" in Once a Week, Series 1, 5 (1861)
• "Business with Bokes" in Once a Week, Series 1, 5 (1861)
• Paul Foster's Daughter (1861) in 3 vols. v.1
• "Patty" in Once a Week, Series 1, 6 (1862)
• The Prodigal Son, serialized in Once a Week in 1862 and published in 3 vols. in 1863
• "The Ghost in the Green Park" in Once a Week, Series 1, 9 (1863)
• Leo (1863) in 3 vols. v.1
• "Piper's Spectral Illusion" in Once a Week, Series 1, 10 (1864)
• The Trials of the Tredgolds (1864) in 3 vols.
• "George Venn and the Ghost" in London Society, 8 (1865) (external scan)
• Sir Felix Foy, Bart (1865) in 3 vols. v.3
• Hobson's Choice (1867)
• Dr. Muspratt's Patients, and Other Stories (1868)
• Over Head and Ears (1868)
• Young Mrs. Nightingale (1874)
• The Banns of Marriage (1875)
• Doubleday's Children (1877)

Criticism and journalism

• "Widow Hogarth and Her Lodger" in Once a Week, Series 1, 4 (1860)
• "Sir Joshua's Pupil" in Once a Week, Series 1, 4 (1861)
• "Captain Macheath" in Once a Week, Series 1, 4 (1861)
• "Verrio and Laguerre" in Once a Week, Series 1, 4 (1861)
• "⁠'Cato' on the Boards" in Once a Week, Series 1, 5 (1861)
• "A Prima Donna" in Once a Week, Series 1, 5 (1861)
• "Allan Ramsay, Junior" in Once a Week, Series 1, 5 (1861)
• "⁠'Irene' at Drury Lane" in Once a Week, Series 1, 5 (1861)
• "The Pupil of Sir Thomas Lawrence" in Once a Week, Series 1, 6 (1862)
• "Lavinia Fenton" in Once a Week, Series 1, 8 (1863)
• "Margaret Woffington" in Once a Week, Series 1, 9 (1863)
• "The Shakespeare Jubilee" in Once a Week, Series 1, 10 (1864)
• "Notes on Dandies" in Once a Week, Series 1, 10 (1864)
• "Clerical Costume" in Once a Week, Series 1, 10 (1864)
• "Shakspeare's Gloves" in Once a Week, Series 1, 10 (1864)
• "⁠'Blacklegs'⁠" in Once a Week, Series 1, 10 (1864)
• "Parallel Passages" in Once a Week, Series 1, 10 (1864)
• "Mrs. David Garrick" in Once a Week, Series 1, 10 (1864)
• "Who Was the Executioner of King Charles the First?" in Once a Week, Series 1, 11 (1864)
• "Wigs" in Once a Week, Series 1, 11 (1864)
• "The Stage Hamlet" in Once a Week, Series 1, 11 (1864)
• "Highwaymen" in Once a Week, Series 1, 11 (1864)
• "Between Tragedy and Comedy" in Once a Week, Series 1, 11 (1864)
• Art in England (1869) (external scan)
• A Book of the Play: Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character (1876) (external scan)
• Hours with the Players (1881) in 2 vols. (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2)
• Nights at the Play: A View of the English Stage (1883)
• On the Stage: Studies of Theatrical History and the Actor's Art (1883) in 2 vols. (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2)

Contributions to the DNB

• Abbot, William
• Abington, Frances
• Addison, Laura
• Aickin, Francis
• Aickin, James
• Allingham, John Till
• Anderson, John Henry
• Andrews, Miles Peter
• Anspach, Elizabeth, Margravine of
• Archer, Thomas (d.1848)
• Armin, Robert
• Arnold, Samuel James
• Astley, Philip
• Aston, Anthony
• Atkinson, Joseph
• Atwell, Hugh
• Ayscough, George Edward

Works about Cook

• "Death: Dutton Cook," in The Times (1883)
• "Cook, Edward Dutton," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885-1900) in 63 vols.